I have 3 dropdowns which contains more than 4 questions as options in each dropdowns. What I want to achieve is when a user selects one option from any dropdown, that particular option/question has to be hidden from other 2 dropdowns and when he changes his selection that option/question has to be shown again in the other 2 dropdowns. He can select questions from any dropdowns. Here is what I have tried till now. This particular piece of code will hide the options on select but I am not getting how exactly I can show it up back.
Javascript
var removeSelection = function (select) {
$('select').filter(':not(#' + select.attr('id') + ')').each(function () {
var index = select.find(':selected').index();
$(this).find('option:eq(' + index + ')').hide();
});
};
$(function () {
$('select').change(function () {
removeSelection($(this));
});
});
HTML
<form id="form1">
<select id="select1">
<option id="selectOpt1">Question 1</option>
<option id="selectOpt2">Question 2</option>
<option id="selectOpt3">Question 3</option>
<option id="selectOpt4">Question 4</option>
</select>
<select id="select2">
<option id="selectOpt1">Question 1</option>
<option id="selectOpt2">Question 2</option>
<option id="selectOpt3">Question 3</option>
<option id="selectOpt4">Question 4</option>
</select>
<select id="select3">
<option id="selectOpt1">Question 1</option>
<option id="selectOpt2">Question 2</option>
<option id="selectOpt3">Question 3</option>
<option id="selectOpt4">Question 4</option>
</select>
</form>
JSFIDDLE- CLick Here
Updated Fiddle Updated
Scenario 1 - Select one option from any dropdown.It should be disabled from other dropdowns. Scenario 2 - Change option from same dropdown. Previous option should be enabled in other dropdowns.
Once you change the duplicate id's to common classes, You can try something like this
$('select').change(function () {
$("option:disabled").prop("disabled",false); // reset the previously disabled options
var $selectedQ = $(this).find("option:selected"); // selected option
var commonClass= $selectedQ.attr("class"); // common class shared by the matching options
$("."+commonClass).not($selectedQ).prop("disabled","disabled"); // disable the matching options other than the selected one
});
Updated Fiddle
(This won't work if there are more than one, different classes for the options, i'd use a common value or data attribute instead like)
$('select').change(function () {
$("option:disabled").prop("disabled", false);
var $selectedQ = $(this).find("option:selected")
var value = $selectedQ.val();
$("option[value='" + value + "']").not($selectedQ).prop("disabled", "disabled");
});
Demo
Update (as per comments)
$('select').change(function () {
var prevMatches = $(this).data("prevMatches");
if (prevMatches) prevMatches.prop("disabled", false)
var $selectedQ = $(this).find("option:selected")
var value = $selectedQ.val();
var $matches = $("option[value='" + value + "']").not($selectedQ);
$matches.prop("disabled", "disabled");
$(this).data("prevMatches", $matches);
});
Demo
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